Letters offering a plane ticket and $3,500 (€2,800) on Sunday reached the first of what Israeli newspaper Haaretz said were between 15,000 to 20,000 African migrants. Israel’s immigration authority said the notices were delivered only to single men among 38,000 persons, mainly Eritreans and Sudanese. His government classes the asylum seekers as economic migrants, using the term “infiltrators” to describe those entering from Egypt. In 2014, thousands of African migrants protested in Tel Aviv against their treatment by Israeli authorities. Until 2012, when Israel erected barriers along its border with Egypt, 60,000 migrants had reached the relatively prosperous nation.

Source: Egypt Independent February 05, 2018 00:45 UTC